Hao He has a nice article on xml.com : Implementing REST Web Services: Best Practice and Guidance. I especially like the pipe-and-filter design which is at the heart of how we do things in Propylon. Data flows and data transformations are just full of natural goodness.

I was not aware that the pipeline technique has a heritage back with Richard Feynman and his work on that atom bomb. A fascinating particle of information! Anybody out there got any pointers? I tend to point to Henry Ford, to Adam Smiths 'Inquiry into the wealth of nations' and Herbert Simon's 'The architecture of complexity'.

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James Strachan has announced ActiveMQ 1.0.

Nice.

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I am organising a Python meetup in Dublin for, hopefully, early evening Thursday September 9th. See python.meetup.com.

I don't know about the meetup.com side of this. Lets see how it works out. If you are interested in meeting up, please contact me by e-mail or leave a comment on this blog.

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This weeks ITWorld E-Business in the Enterprise article : Nano-technology and the onward march of digitization.

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